Moritzburg

The town is famous for the old hunting castle of the Saxon kings. Beautifully restored from the in- and outside it is host to a collection of historic horse carriages. In East Germany and the Czech Republic it is also well known as the site where the 1973 fairytale film "Three Wishes for Cinderella" (Drei Haselnüsse für Aschenbrödel or Tři oříšky pro Popelku, literally "three hazelnuts for cinderella"), a Czechoslovakian–East German co-production, was filmed.

• Moritzburg-Information

  phone: +49 35207 854-0
  address: Schloßallee 3B
  Tourist information kiosk.

By train

There is a narrow gauge steam train from Radebeul-Ost, which in turn is served by Dresden S-Bahn trains and the Dresden–Leipzig regional express.
is a bit off the town centre, about 1.4 km south of the castle. In the railway building, there is a small café/diner.
The next station with long-distance traffic is Dresden-Neustadt, from where bus 477 connects to Moritzburg every half hour (see below).

By bus

Public buses are both cheaper and more frequent than the steam train that is primarily a tourist attraction and only secondarily a mode of transport. To and from Dresden you should take bus 477 (half-hourly, taking 27 min from Dresden-Neustadt station to , a few steps from the castle). Moritzburg Schloss is a one-way stop; for the bus back to Dresden, you have to walk a few hundred metres to .
From Meißen take the S1 train to Coswig Bahnhof and from there bus 405 to Moritzburg.

Public Transport

All information about public transport is available at the homepage of the Public transport authority Upper Elbe (VVO).

• Moritzburg Castle

• FasanenschlösschenRococo-style maison de plaisance. 2 km exactly east of the castle with whom it forms a visual axis.

• Lighthouse350 km off the nearest seashore, it never had a nautical function, but is a "folly" built as part of a scenery for the reenactment of naval battles.

• State stud farm

  address: Schloßallee 1
  The Baroque-style stud buildings were designed by court architect Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann in 1733. The state-owned farm provides heavy warmblood, coldblood and Haflinger stallions for all of Saxony and Thuringia, as well as implementing horse performance tests. It also includes a riding school.

• Wildgehege Moritzburg

  address: Radeburger Straße 2
  Zoo, encompassing almost 100 acres, with more than 30 indigenous species like wolves, foxes, lynxes, deer, elk, moose, boars, moufflons. They are kept in near-natural enclosures, relatively appropriate for the species. Moreover the park includes a high-rope course, falconry, and educational trail on ants.

• Käthe-Kollwitz-Haus

  address: Meißner Str. 7
  Museum dedicated to the artist Käthe Kollwitz, who lived here during the last months of her life in 1944/45.

• Moritzburg ChurchBaroque Revival church, built in 1902–04. The steeple is 47 metres high.

• Walking through the forests around Moritzburg
• Carriage ride

• Adams Gasthof

  phone: +49 35207 99775
  address: Markt 9
  Great restaurant with typical seasonal German dishes and a great terrace.

• Landhaus Moritzburg

  phone: +49 35207 8969-0
  address: Schlossallee 37

• Waldpension Ullmann

  phone: +49 35207 81548
  address: Fasanerie 1

• Pension Bräuer

  phone: +49 35207 81213
  address: Kötzschenbrodaer Str. 30

• Pension Alte Posthalterei

  phone: +49 35207 81103
  address: Bahnhofstr. 1

• Eisenberger Hof

  phone: +49 35207 991770
  address: Kötzschenbrodaer St. 8

• Hotel garni Sonnenhof

  phone: +49 351 8305527
  address: August-Bebel-Str. 69

• Bilz Kurhotel

  phone: +49 351 8386329
  address: Lößnitzgrundstr. 101/103

• Pension Marlis

  phone: +49 351 8960065
  address: August-Bebel-Str. 86

• Pension "Am Roßmarkt"

  phone: +49 35207 81130
  address: Roßmarkt 11

• Radebeul, 8 km south (linked by heritage railway)
• Radeburg, 8 km north – small old town
• Dresden, 16 km southeast (half hour by bus)
• Meißen, 16 km west (bus 405 and train S1 with interchange in Coswig Bahnhof)